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UNITED STATES PATENT Cerise.

CLARENCE C. OVIATT, OF MILTON JUNCTION, WISCONSIN, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALFOF HIS RIGHT TO L. DAVIS, OF SAME PLACE.

WASHING-MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 230,146, dated July 20,1880.

Application filed May 15, 1880.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, C. C. ()VIATT, of Milton Junction, in the county ofRock and State of Wisconsin, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements in Washing-Machines and I do hereby declare the followingto be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such aswill enable others skilled in the art to which it pertains to make anduse it, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, which formpart of this specification.

My invention relates to an improvement in washing-machines; and itconsists in the combination of a frame which is secured to the edges ofthe tub by suitable screws and thumbnuts and an operating lever which issecured to a pivoted toothed cross-beam which operates the two pounders,the said frame being slotted, so that the cross-beam and the uprightrods connected to the pounders can be adjusted vertically to adapt thepounders to the quantity of clothes in the tub.

Figure 1 is a side elevation of my invention, the front part of the tubbeing cut away. Fig. 2 is a plan view, and Fig. 3 is a detached view, oftwo of the pounders. Fig. 4 is a horizontal section taken through thecross-beam and slotted strip.

A represents a common wash-tub, which has the perforated board B rigidlysecured to its bottom, and at just a suitable distance above it to allowthe water to pass freely through the perforations in the board and uparound its edges. The clothes to be washed are placed upon thisperforated board, and the water is to be alternately pressed and drawnup through opposite sides of this board, for the purpose of cleansingthem.

Secured to the edges of the tub are the three screws C, over which aremade to catch the cross-beam B and the brace E, by means of which andsuitable thumb-nuts my machine is fastened in position ready foroperation.

When the clothes are to be placed in the tub to be washed the thumb-nutwhich holds the lower and outer end of the brace E is removed, and thenthe frame G, carrying the lever and pounders, is turned back upon its(ModcL) pivot V, so as to leave nearly the entire top of the tub freeand open. By this construction it is never necessary to remove themachine from the tub. This frame G is supported at its rear end upon thecross-beam B, and atits front end upon the brace E, and has a centralslotted strip, H, extending down its center. Passing through theopposite sides of this frame are the two vertical rods I, to the lowerends of which the pounders J are secured. These two rods I are connectedtogether by a toothed operating cross-beam, L, which is secured in anydesired position in the slotted strip by means of a screw and thumb-nut,as shown in Fig. 4. This cross-beam has teeth made on each end, so as tocatch in the corresponding recesses in the inner side of each rod I,whereby, as the beam is rocked upon its pivot by means of the lever N,these two rods, carrying the pounders on their inner ends, will bealternately worked up and down. The teeth of this cross-beam, bycatching in the recesses of the rods I, alternately lift the rods upwardand then force them downward again, the beam acting as a lever for thispurpose from its fulcrum outward to each end. By means of thevertically-slotted strip and this cross-beam, which unites the rodstogether, the pounders can be raised or lowered in the tub, so as toadapt them to the amount of clothes in the tub to be washed.

The pounders are divided into sections, as here shown, and connected tothe lower ends of the vertical rods I by means of cross-bars.

Each pounder may be made of sheet metal, cast-iron, or wood, and eachone has its lower side divided into a series of air-chambers, either ofthe form here shown or any other that may be preferred. In operatingthesev here shown, should any one of them become atmospheric Washers ontheir lower ends, snb broken or injured,it can be readily replacedstantially as shown.

by another. In testimony that I claim the foregoing I Having thusdescribed my invention, 1* have hereunto set myhand this 3d day of May,5 claim- I 1880.

The combination of the frame G, provided w with the vertically-slottedstrip H, with the OVIADT' pivoted toothed cross-bar, the vertically-op-Witnesses: erating rods 1, and a set-screw for adjusting GEO. W.BARRETT,

10 the cross-bar, the rods I being provided with F (l. BU'IEN.

